An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death…

Most Alzheimer’s disease cases would not arise without the contribution of just this single gene: Apoe

Primate gut microbiota induce evolutionarily salient changes in mouse neurodevelopment

Microdosing Psilocybin: No Benefit in Cognitive, Affective, or Social Function in Healthy Individuals

Neuroscientists find evidence meditation changes how fluid moves in the brain

Autism-related traits are associated with faster autonomic processing, as measured through pupillary light reflex (PLR) dynamics in infancy, and are also linked to epigenome-wide DNA methylation patterns

Sleep loss damages the brain’s wiring insulation, called myelin, leading to conduction delays and disrupted interhemispheric synchronization

A compound found in cannabis may help protect the brain from early memory and social problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease

Eating refined foods for just three days can impair memory in the aging brain

Study finds fNIRS portable brain scanners can accurately detect cannabis (THC) resting state impairment

Intercellular Mitochondrial Transfer from Glial Cells to Neurons Preserves Neuronal Bioenergetics and Mitigates Painful Nerve Damage in Diabetic and Chemotherapy-Related Peripheral Neuropathy

New research reveals how inhibitory neurons connect with their target excitatory cells, identifying 2 molecules that enable a “handshake” leading to synapse formation

Microbes may hold the key to brain evolution

A spot in the base of the brain has a love of language

Brain displacement and nonlinear deformation following human spaceflight

Research found diets high in fiber, healthy unsaturated fats and micronutrients such as: Vitamins A and E, magnesium and potassium with better brain health and memory

A widely used pesticide, chlorpyrifos, may contribute to Parkinson’s disease

The study reveals that macrophages, key immune cells, fail to properly clear dead and drying cells after peripheral nerve injury, contributing to chronic pain development.

Depression occurs more often and earlier in seniors who go on to develop Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia

Researchers discovered that a little-known region deep in the brain -the caudate nucleus- could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age

Autism spectrum disorder and early-life stress converge on systemic hyperexcitability and stress epigenetics

Long-term antidepressant effects of psilocybin linked to functional brain changes - a single dose of psilocybin altered the electrical properties of brain cells in rats for months, even after physical changes to the neurons had disappeared.

Study assessed brain activity in adolescents with and without a history of depression, and how it relates to everyday emotional expression in text messages

Early life adversity may fundamentally rewire global brain dynamics

Prior research suggests meditation may slow brain aging and reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease

New study challenges the core of lesion network mapping, showing it may reveal the same “universal” brain network across unrelated brain disorders

How Brain Neurons Separately Encode Items and Contexts for Memory

Studies show that scratching overrides itch signals and engages pain-modulating regions in the brain, creating a sense of relief and calm

ADHD risk may not be fixed at birth, but shaped by early environments: For children with parents who have elevated ADHD symptoms, a rich and supportive home environment predicted better cognitive functioning and linked to fewer ADHD symptoms in later childhood and adolescence.

Autism shows elevated brain glutamine on 7T MRS, consistent with presumably increased glutamine–glutamate cycling, indicating greater glutamate turnover and recycling demand in adults

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